School: Effin (C.), Ráthluirc (roll number 8334)
- Location:
- Effin, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mrs A. Fitzgerad
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 119
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- (continued from previous page)Racing the white waves by me and watching by night and morn
For a first glad sight of the kindly land where I and my race was born(5)
And safe in the soil of Kerry perhaps I could weep the tears
That have gathered around my heart strings in all those sorrowful years
While draining the bitter life cup God filled for me to the brim
Since I left the grave of my Conor and our two boys laid by him(6)
Praised be the Lord forever, He has taken my all in life
My boys who were tall and handsome, the husband who called me wife
The home I was bred and born in, the friends who were good and true
And left behind in the darkness the dreams of my youth and you(7)
But I'll go home to far Kerry. The God who has sent my pain.
Will send me the healing of it in seeing your face again
And there by the boys Conor I'll find a rest for my feet
Nor ever be sick and lonely again till death makes the list complete(continues on next page)
